MOUNT PEEL ROAD BOARD.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14523, 19 August 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)

MOUNT PEEL ROAD BOARD.

This Board met on Thursday afternoon. Present .Messrs O. 3 Deuuistoun (chairman), Thew, Dunn, and apoloV C ' iU ' IYm 6e " t aa "The Clerk, Mr Templer, thanked the hold <v ms granted Jiim a mohth'.s Tho" clerk to the Opuha Board wroto tor intormation regarding leases and title deeds.—To he supplied. ilio Commissidner ot Crown Lands wrote stating that ha had received a pet.tiou_ from Tripp Settlers asking to iavo the surplus money ollotted for road formation divided between tho Mount Peel- and Geraldme Read Boards and that tho petitioners a*serted tliat the Board 'declined to do any work on tho Settlement j'Oads until tins was done. The Comm.ssinner stated it was only on new roads tho Crown was under obligation to spend money, and the money he had in. hand vis weighted oa the settlers for this purpose and could not hi handed over to tlie Boards to expend as they thought 1' P* v y <)uW ba o»"E«i if they would let Jinn know if there was any -ew rood on the Tripp Settlement" that roqUKrei dfonnatiQii; if not he vrtLS proto consider a proposal for spending tho money in hand for tho most urgently required work within the settlement. Tho total sura in hand was only £235.—3\1r Teropler read a copy of a letter he had sent in reply. He i aid tlie only communication they had re-' owed -was from the Geraldino Tload Board, and ho had referred that Boaid to the Commissioner's letter, in' which" J»e stated an officer was to visit tho bettlement and look into the matter. A letter from' Messrs Tripp und llolleston exr/ressed the ooiuion relative to subsidy received after the aCTOe-in-E'nt with tlw Opuha Koad Boai'd, that the Opuha Boad Board was rightly entitled to its share.— The Chairman said thero was no doubt the Opuiia Boad Board had «. just claim, and all the members concurred. In answer to a qu-estion it was stated that the ainpunt involved was £IOO, and it was agreed to vote' the Opuha Board its .just share.

Mr H. D. Acland applied' to have half a mile of Mount Peel Road shingled.— Application to be reported on.

Tha Overseer Veported that work dono included shingling main road, boundary road, and Sowerby road; clearing slips in cutting,. putting fine shingle on frozen places in Forest Cutting -and|CUtt.ngsc;-ub to let the'sun in upon the cutting. There were two little wh,te pine trees in the Board's reservo which shaded the worst part, and if these were cut down they would get fiv© hours' sun. Tlie culvert in Forest cutting wanted 'lifting to cfear it of willow roots and shingle, it wopld he best to give it more fall and to cement the joints. Mr Dunn was rolling boundary road. The pit shingle was 5D "psr cent better than river shingle to roll. Abcrut 25 chains of main road from Pithie's road was very thin and cut through. There was plenty of nietal close by.. All the -poisoned wheat had; been usod and he wanted more money for bird's heads.— Mr Tempter was asked to report on these matters next month.

Mr Dunn applied for use of' plantation reserve. Mount Peel.— Granted on usual conditions.

It was reported that, tlie Board's credit balance was £1222 17s 10d, and that rates collected amounted to £152 Us 3d. . -

Payments to the amount of £73 Jte ■were authorised and the meeting terminated.